Binary black holes, systems consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other, synchronize their spins before ...

The Largest 'Black Hole Jet' Discovered Is Estimated to Be Twice the Size of Our Milky Way We know black holes to be ...

Researchers have discovered that black holes engage in a cosmic dance and a star-lit meal to vibe with each other in a cosmic ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide open. A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

“This looked absolutely nothing like a normal black hole.” Astronomers are not sure why that might be happening. The most likely explanation is that there is a spinning white dwarf slowly ...

The Hubble Telescope captured a supermassive black hole creating expanding gas bubbles in the galaxy SDSS J1354+1327, 900 million light-years away. HE0435-1223, seen at the centre of this image, is ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

The typical morphology of supermassive black holes. This artist’s impression depicts one surrounded by an accretion disc. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser/N. Bartmann. There’s a Universe ...

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Black holes and their archaeology The results of the SDSS Survey of mass measurements of hundreds of black holes were a surprise, according to Fries. That's because the spin rates reveal something ...